If we look at PowerShell, I really can't fault Microsoft's direction. It's a true object-oriented shell with good documentation including lots of examples, and they ship a nice little Integrated Scripting Environment tool to help script writers. I'm still more comfortable in a UNIX shell, because that's what I know best, but I would gladly want to have some of the PS features brought there.
why sometimes when I drag many large files into a new directory does Win 7 spend ages doing a copy then delete?
That is probably just to prevent a mess if something goes wrong when moving the files.
The real pain in the ass are the stupid full screen Metro apps. Yeah, they just pop up with brightly colored interface that is optimized for touch. They completely disrupt your workflow, there is no visible Exit-button, and they do that for one screen only (if you have multimonitor system, you will totally hate this).
This! There's a debate going on who likes the Start Screen and who doesn't, but one of the supposed main attractions of Windows 8 are the Metro apps. And almost no one likes or needs them.
However, we're still far from the fabled "Year of the Linux Desktop". For example, playing a video or MP3 file is still a hassle on non-Ubuntu systems, you still need the command line to get some of the more difficult programs to work, etc.
We should simply use Ubuntu. While some people here hate Unity or Mr. Shuttleworth, Ubuntu is the most realistic option to make the Year of Linux Desktop. It is easy to use, stuff works, and it has strong support behind it. You can run pretty much all of your open source software on it, and it is officially supported by Steam.
Nothing is "comprised of" anything else. The word you are looking for is composed. An computer comprises components. Components compose or "make up" a computer.
If enough people misuse a word long enough, that becomes the new meaning.
My two year old netbook (amd c-50; so slower than anything other than an Intel Atom) running Debian Wheezy wakes up from sleep in under a second (suspending is just as fast).
On a sidenote, I have a netbook with AMD C-60 and unfortunately the turbo core feature does not work on Linux. The CPU can lower speed with cpufreq without problems, but I'm not sure if the Bobcat platform has proper turbo core support in place. AMD does some OSS work these days so I wonder if some smart guy there could actually fix this.
Hibernation is also good for those laptops which blink a LED while on suspend, and when that happens in the dark when you're sleeping, you can see the whole damn room pulsing. Hibernation puts the machine off, and if you pull the power cord off too, you usually are left with no lights. Ahh.
Which is easy for MS to achieve as they're willing to implement a non-standard ACPI implementation rather than using the Intel implementation that everybody else uses. And write work arounds for buggy implementations rather than kick it back to the manufacturer to do correctly.
What workarounds? Even if I install the original Windows 7 with no updates on top of it, ACPI works flawlessly on most machines, both old and brand new (which didn't even exist when Win7 was released).
I wonder if this Slashdot article (or rather summary) was inspired by a comment of mine which I made to the first internet.org article a couple of days ago.
I think the Microsoft Account and related stuff is also quite bad privacy and security risk. Apparently 8.1 will send your searches to Microsoft in a similar way to Unity's "Amazon shopping lens". When enabled, the IE SmartScreen filter will send your browser URLs to MS. All sorts of little things here and there -- "would you like to send information to company X to improve our services". I suppose you can get rid of most of it by carefully unticking each buried checkbox, but it's getting increasingly hard to opt out of this kind of junk. What if I just want to be alerted about Patch Tuesday updates?
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poor CLI integration (please just build-in Bash)
If we look at PowerShell, I really can't fault Microsoft's direction. It's a true object-oriented shell with good documentation including lots of examples, and they ship a nice little Integrated Scripting Environment tool to help script writers. I'm still more comfortable in a UNIX shell, because that's what I know best, but I would gladly want to have some of the PS features brought there.
why sometimes when I drag many large files into a new directory does Win 7 spend ages doing a copy then delete?
That is probably just to prevent a mess if something goes wrong when moving the files.
The real pain in the ass are the stupid full screen Metro apps. Yeah, they just pop up with brightly colored interface that is optimized for touch. They completely disrupt your workflow, there is no visible Exit-button, and they do that for one screen only (if you have multimonitor system, you will totally hate this).
This! There's a debate going on who likes the Start Screen and who doesn't, but one of the supposed main attractions of Windows 8 are the Metro apps. And almost no one likes or needs them.
However, we're still far from the fabled "Year of the Linux Desktop". For example, playing a video or MP3 file is still a hassle on non-Ubuntu systems, you still need the command line to get some of the more difficult programs to work, etc.
We should simply use Ubuntu. While some people here hate Unity or Mr. Shuttleworth, Ubuntu is the most realistic option to make the Year of Linux Desktop. It is easy to use, stuff works, and it has strong support behind it. You can run pretty much all of your open source software on it, and it is officially supported by Steam.
Those are quite heavy words, can you elaborate why you think it is "almost entirely complete shit"?
In Finnish slang there's the word "mutka" for firearm, which translates to "curve".
But the Dell offers better value.
Nothing is "comprised of" anything else. The word you are looking for is composed. An computer comprises components. Components compose or "make up" a computer.
If enough people misuse a word long enough, that becomes the new meaning.
I could care less! :P
So what? It still makes for an interesting discussion.
I had to do a SIGINT on previous girlfriends too.
I have never needed to use such drastic measures. Usually a SIGTSTP has been enough.
I think the submitter's theory was that the NSA man-in-the-middle data capturing would slow down the connection.
Aaahh...my poor eyes...
My two year old netbook (amd c-50; so slower than anything other than an Intel Atom) running Debian Wheezy wakes up from sleep in under a second (suspending is just as fast).
On a sidenote, I have a netbook with AMD C-60 and unfortunately the turbo core feature does not work on Linux. The CPU can lower speed with cpufreq without problems, but I'm not sure if the Bobcat platform has proper turbo core support in place. AMD does some OSS work these days so I wonder if some smart guy there could actually fix this.
Hibernation is also good for those laptops which blink a LED while on suspend, and when that happens in the dark when you're sleeping, you can see the whole damn room pulsing. Hibernation puts the machine off, and if you pull the power cord off too, you usually are left with no lights. Ahh.
Have done that. These days I also find myself inserting an USB device to an HDMI port as they look similar enough.
Sadly, most companies won't allow the customer to talk directly to engineering.
Which is easy for MS to achieve as they're willing to implement a non-standard ACPI implementation rather than using the Intel implementation that everybody else uses. And write work arounds for buggy implementations rather than kick it back to the manufacturer to do correctly.
What workarounds? Even if I install the original Windows 7 with no updates on top of it, ACPI works flawlessly on most machines, both old and brand new (which didn't even exist when Win7 was released).
These weird spam/troll messages are part of what makes Slashdot so unique. ;)
I wonder if this Slashdot article (or rather summary) was inspired by a comment of mine which I made to the first internet.org article a couple of days ago.
I see. According to his review he has "pictures and videos" of the bugs, I hope he kept them...
Well, the hotel guest will probably win the lawsuit, right? I don't see how writing a review about experiences in a hotel could be illegal.
I was comparing only the performance of a single core.
Of course, as you say, adding more cores will improve overall performance too.
I'm starting to wonder if slashdotters read the comments they are replying to anymore. :)
I think the Microsoft Account and related stuff is also quite bad privacy and security risk. Apparently 8.1 will send your searches to Microsoft in a similar way to Unity's "Amazon shopping lens". When enabled, the IE SmartScreen filter will send your browser URLs to MS. All sorts of little things here and there -- "would you like to send information to company X to improve our services". I suppose you can get rid of most of it by carefully unticking each buried checkbox, but it's getting increasingly hard to opt out of this kind of junk. What if I just want to be alerted about Patch Tuesday updates?
We can stack a pile of GPUs inside and make it furiously mine BitCoins.
You're right. No way this robot has the right qualifications to attend a university. At least until they add a beer drinking function.
That should be doable. The technology exists for the purpose. That seems to be Finnish supermarket beer by the way. :)
Betteridge's Law of Headlines: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
It's more a guideline than a law - exceptions exist, but are rare.
I would say that the law applies in 90% of the cases.